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A $20 million magic wand
A life-changing diagnostic device tested on sheep in New Zealand is about to be trialled on humans Audio
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Prof Kevin Tracey: How vagus nerve stimulation will revolutionise medicine
It won't be too long before electronic vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is helping to treat inflammatory illness, says bioelectronic medicine specialist Kevin Tracey. Audio
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Dunedin Hospital rebuild: Will it live up to expectations?
Dunedin was promised a brand spanking new hospital - but will cutbacks compromise it? Audio
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Living with early onset dementia is not easy
Former rugby players are 2 and a half times more likely to develop degenerative brain disease and 15 times more likely to get motor neuron disease than the general public. These were the findings of a… Audio
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Hugarian neurosurgeon declined right to work in NZ
A Hugarian neurosurgeon is taking the Medical Council to court, after they turned down his bid to work in a specialist role in New Zealand.
Lucas Rakasz applied for specialist registration three… Audio
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Brainscapes: the maps in our brain
If the brain's 86 billion neurons were all randomly connected, the brain would have to be more than 20 kilometres wide to fit all those connections. Luckily, they're instead organised through… Audio
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Side effects of Covid-19 showing up in the brain
Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic and we're still learning about all the ways it can affect human health. Now, some experts are saying side effects of the virus are showing up in the brain. Dr… Audio
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The Joy Project: Nathan Tuuta
Audio 26 Nov 2019Nathan Tuuta (Ngāti Mutunga) 44, is an emergency department nurse. He lives in Bell Block, New Plymouth.
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Southern DHB's only neurosurgeon working unsafe hours and says lives are at risk
The only neurosurgeon working for the Southern District Health board area says patients are at risk because there aren't enough neurosurgeons and he's calling on the government to help. Audio
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Should under 12s be playing contact sport?
From 2022 Canadian children aged 12 and younger will no longer be able to play the fullest version of American football to protect them from long-term cognitive problems resulting from repetitive head… Audio
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Sarah Perry on leaving the church to become a writer
British author Sarah Perry has followed up her number-one bestseller The Essex Serpent with a novel called Melmoth. She talks to Kim Hill about faith, illness, moral courage and her taste for the… Audio
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Radiology under review after teen's fatal cancer missed
A district health board has been asked to review its radiology department after missing signs that a teenage cancer patient's brain tumour was coming back. The 16-year-old girl who died three years… Audio
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Expert Feature: What Is Neuropsychiatry?
Neuropsychiatry, is a branch of medicine which deals with mental health disorders which can be attributed to disease of the nervous system. It also considers the impact that any damage to the brain… Video, Audio
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Albatross webcam clicks soaring
Audio 8 May 2017After making its debut last year a webcam at an Otago albatross colony is a global hit. Audio, Gallery
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Southland down to just one neurosurgeon
Three recent resignations mean there's only one neurosurgeon left at Dunedin Hospital, meaning others now have to travel in from Canterbury, Wellington and Hamilton. Audio
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Henry Marsh: Do No Harm
Henry Marsh is a pioneer of operating on brain tumours under local anaesthetic. In Do No Harm, he opens up to Kim Hill about the fierce joy of operating, his hatred of hospitals, and the profoundly… Audio
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Pioneering British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh
Henry Marsh, CBE, is one of Britain's top neurosurgeons, a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine, and a specialist in operating on the brain under local anaesthetic. He is the subject of the… Audio
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Science writer Sam Kean on neuroscience's greatest mysteries
Science writer Sam Kean has researched, for his latest book, the wild and mysterious cases of severe and bizarre brain injuries that made up the foundations of modern neuroscience. In The Tale of the… Audio
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The self and the brain
Audio 4 May 2014NZ's first professor in neurosurgery, Belgian brain researcher and neurosurgeon Dirk de Ridder, was lured to NZ this year to head up the inaugural Neurological Foundation chair at the University of… Audio
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Stealth Tool for Neurosurgery
Audio 11 Jul 2013Brain imaging equipment using technolgy from Stealth bombers and 3D modelling from the film industry Audio
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Our Changing World - neurosurgery and 3D computers
Audio 8 Jul 2013Take technology used in stealth bombers, add 3D modelling techniques from the film industry and the result is a brain imaging system known as Stealth. Ruth Beran heads to Auckland City Hospital to… Audio
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Spiritual Outlook for 17 March 2013
Audio 17 Mar 2013Amelia Nurse talks to Belgian neurosurgeon and brain researcher Dirk De Ridder about the five stages of drug induced spiritual experiences; how repetition - of anything - can change your brain… Audio
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Spiritual Outlook for 10 March 2013
Amelia Nurse talks to Belgian neurosurgeon and brain researcher Dirk De Ridder about what goes on in the brain when you have a spiritual experience; whether repeated spiritual experience can change… Audio
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Belgian neurosurgeon completes new Dunedin unit
Audio 1 Feb 2013The man who will lead public neurosurgery in Dunedin takes up the post today, after a two-and-half year community campaign to keep the service in the city. Audio
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Question time for 14 December 2010
Audio 14 Dec 2010Questions to Ministers 1. Hon PHIL GOFF to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by his statement that by early 2010 New Zealand will be coming out of the recession "reasonably aggressively" 2. CRAIG… Audio
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The Week in Review - week ending 12 November 2010
Audio 12 Nov 2010A review of the week's news including: fears over detection of new kiwifruit disease, investigation into Navy ship being forced to turn back just hours into first deployment, an Auckland real estate… Audio
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South Island neurosurgery rejig model for reorganisations
Audio 11 Nov 2010A senior doctor says there are lessons to be learned from the way neurosurgery services have been reorganised in the South Island for the provision of other health services. Audio
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More health services to be organised on a national level
Audio 11 Nov 2010It is expected more health services will be co-ordinated nationally following yesterday's announcement the new National Health Board would coordinate neurosurgery services in Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Top Stories for Thursday 11 November 2010
Audio 11 Nov 2010Diseased kiwifruit orchards to be sprayed today, MAF details kiwifruit vine canker spread, Transport Agency radically changes tack on speeding ads, Iraqi Christians have been targeted in a series of… Audio
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Neurosurgery decision a winner for Dunedin
Audio 10 Nov 2010There were scenes of jubilation in Dunedin today as the news came through that Otago will not only keep its two neuro-surgeons, it will get at least one more. Audio